Mind in nature [[electronic resource] ] : from science to philosophy / / Marko Ursic, Olga Markic and Andrej Ule

• Pubblicazione: New York, : Nova Science Publishers, c2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 p.)
• Disciplina: 128/.2
• Soggetto topico: Philosophy of mind; Mind-brain identity theory
• Altri autori: MarkičOlga UršičMarko UleA (Andrej)
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. [201]-213) and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Intro -- MIND IN NATURE -- LIBRARY OF CONGRESS CATALOGING-IN-PUBLICATION DATA -- CONTENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- PART I. MIND AND COSMOLOGY, SEARCHING FOR A "THIRD WAY" -- Chapter 1 "FINE TUNING" AND THE ANTHROPIC COSMOLOGICAL PRINCIPLE -- Chapter 2 MULTIVERSE(S) -- Chapter 3 PARADOXES OF TRANSFINITE COSMOLOGY -- Chapter 4 "INTELLIGENT DESIGN" VS. COSMOLOGICAL DARWINISM -- Chapter 5 NEW WAYS OF SOLVING THE "GOLDILOCKS ENIGMA" -- HOLISM AND ITS IMPLICATIONS -- CHAOS AND COMPLEXITY -- SELF-ORGANIZATION -- Chapter 6 EMERGENCE AND EMANATION -- Chapter 7 PANTHEISM AS THE "THIRD WAY" OF PHILOSOPHICAL COSMOLOGY -- PART II. MIND IN COGNITIVE SCIENCE, FROM COMPUTATIONAL MODELS TO THE EMBODIED SITUATED COGNITION -- Chapter 8 THE MECHANICAL PICTURE -- Chapter 9 COGNITION AS COMPUTATION -- CLASSICAL SYMBOLIC COGNITIVE SCIENCE -- DIFFICULTIES WITH AND CRITICISM OF THE SYMBOLIC APPROACH -- CONNECTIONISM -- CONNECTIONISM AND THE EXTERNAL SYMBOL APPROACH -- Chapter 10 MENTAL PROCESSES AS NEURAL PROCESSES: THE BOTTOM UP APPROACH -- NEUROSCIENCE AND THE QUESTION OF INTERPRETATION -- NEUROSCIENCE OF EMOTIONS -- THE ROLE OF EMOTIONS AND FEELINGS IN DECISION MAKING -- Chapter 11 UNRESOLVED ISSUES: MENTAL CAUSATION PROBLEM AND CONSCIOUSNESS -- MENTAL CAUSATION PROBLEM -- EMERGENTISM AND MENTAL CAUSATION -- CONSCIOUSNESS: A HARD PROBLEM FOR COGNITIVE SCIENCE -- Chapter 12 EMBODIED, SITUATED COGNITION: BRAIN, BODY AND WORLD -- BASIC IDEAS OF EMBODIED SITUATED COGNITION -- BRAIN, BODY AND WORLD -- PART III. MIND IN PHYSICAL REALITY, ITS POTENTIALITY AND ACTUALITY -- Chapter 13 PROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- CONSCIOUSNESS AS A MENTAL PROCESS -- GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS OF PROCESSES -- PHILOSOPHICAL CONCEPTS OF POTENTIALITY -- Chapter 14 POTENTIALITY IN NATURE -- POTENTIALITY IN PHYSICS. ; THE SECOND-ORDER PROCESSES: CHANGES OF POTENTIALITY -- PROCESS POTENTIALITY IN LIVING ORGANISMS -- Chapter 15 NONPROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- IS CONSCIOUSNESS A PROCESS? -- THE SYNTHESIS OF PROCESSUAL AND NONPROCESSUAL ASPECTS OF CONSCIOUSNESS -- Chapter 16 THE EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVE AND THE PERSPECTIVITY DIMENSION OF REALITY -- TAKING AN EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVE -- IRREDUCIBILITY OF THE EXPERIENTIAL PERSPECTIVE -- THE PERSPECTIVITY DIMENSION OF REALITY -- Chapter 17 DOES QUANTUM MECHANICS PROVIDE A MODELOF EXPERIENTIAL CONSCIOUSNESS? -- REFERENCES -- ABOUT THE AUTHORS -- INDEX.
• Titolo autorizzato: Mind in nature
• ISBN: 1-62081-343-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910823571903321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: World philosophy series.